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New comment by duerrp in "I hate almost all software (2011)"

duerrp — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 09:39:34 +0000

> just a WM (XMonad), a browser (Firefox+vimperator), Emacs > and a terminal (urxvt, which I only use occasionally) Exactly my setup... now if only Firefox would not peg a CPU core or two in the background and slow down to a grind ever so often... (despite NoScript, uBlock origin etc.)

New comment by duerrp in "Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)"

duerrp — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 11:45:58 +0000

This... :set gui=none

New comment by duerrp in "Show HN: Augmented Reality App to Predict the Sun and Moon Location"

duerrp — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 07:51:11 +0000

There's a lot of libraries that do the hard work for you though... Anyway, if an EKF is too much effort, you could also try the "Madgwick" filter:

Madgwick, S. O., Harrison, A. J., & Vaidyanathan, R. (2011). Estimation of imu and marg orientation using a gradient descent algorithm. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics

New comment by duerrp in "So you think you know C?"

duerrp — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 06:34:32 +0000

Thanks for the tip, your link is missing an A at the end though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEx5DNLWGgA

New comment by duerrp in "The Beauty of Bounded Gaps (2013)"

duerrp — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 03:01:44 +0000

There's a nice documentary on Zhang (and the progress his work triggered) here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIIyKWxGhEA

New comment by duerrp in "Turning off syntax highlighting"

duerrp — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 02:58:20 +0000

did you try magit?

Maybe it is of limited use for non-emacs users, but imho it's a fantastic way to use git with a perfect balance between making simple things very easy to do and allowing (almost) anything you can do with the CLI while providing excellent visual feedback.

New comment by duerrp in "How I built a keyboard by hand"

duerrp — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:43:19 +0000

The Japanese keyboard layout is great for that! I am using Control on the Muhenkan and Henkan buttons left and right of the space bar and Alt on Alt and Katakana/Hiragana/Romaji buttons next to them. I also have Caps lock mapped to Control if pushed and Esc when released without another key (xcape) - works great!

New comment by duerrp in "Texture – As open as LaTeX and as simple as a classic word processor"

duerrp — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 01:55:13 +0000

As a side note, if you are already in emacs, you could write your articles in org-mode instead of LaTex.

It's gotten to a point where I am starting to see Latex exclusively as a language to compile to, not something you want to write yourself.

If you haven't used a well-configured org-mode, have a look at this demo for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t925KRBbFc. There's nothing out there (open source or proprietary) that comes close for scientific work in my opinion.

New comment by duerrp in "Uber's Failure in Japan"

duerrp — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 05:08:44 +0000

I was wondering the same thing...

New comment by duerrp in "Code Is Never “Perfect”, Code Is Only Ever “Good Enough”"

duerrp — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:24:25 +0000

That's a great metaphor...

New comment by duerrp in "Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work"

duerrp — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:20:41 +0000

Not sure if it's the best way or not, but I use offlineimap...

New comment by duerrp in "Run code inline in Atom using Jupyter kernels"

duerrp — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:12:11 +0000

Org mode rocks! And with ob-ipython you basically get same functionality as the notebook...

https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython

New comment by duerrp in "Tesla confirms “Autopilot” crash in Montana"

duerrp — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:30:30 +0000

It is misleading though...

New comment by duerrp in "Tesla confirms “Autopilot” crash in Montana"

duerrp — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:29:27 +0000

Also, are they counting all previous versions of the software instead of just the latest?

Moreover, I wonder how the human drivers in the statistics fare if you correct for drunk driving / using cellphone, etc. In my opinion, any autopilot worth it's name should be an order of magnitude better than the average human driver.

New comment by duerrp in "Go Terminal_ Elegant and Efficient Linux Terminal"

duerrp — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 03:25:13 +0000

While I agree with you that urxvt is a great tool, I disagree with the suggestion that the terminal is "a solved problem" (or that vim is perfection). There is a lot of room for innovation, though not necessarily in the direction that Go Terminal is going.

New comment by duerrp in "Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates to Ensure Protection (2012)"

duerrp — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 03:07:25 +0000

I don't know why this is down... the article is from 2012.

Raffaello D'Andrea of ETH Zurich and Verity Studios Demos New Generation of UAVs

duerrp — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:51:09 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ted.com/talks/raffaello_d_andrea_meet_the_dazzling_flying_machines_of_the_future

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11143608

Points: 1

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New comment by duerrp in "Nim for scientific computing: Back to the future"

duerrp — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 04:27:20 +0000

Sounds very interesting... I'd love to have a look.

New comment by duerrp in "IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards"

duerrp — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:00:55 +0000

That sounds great! I am trying it right now...

FYI it's here: https://github.com/alols/xcape

New comment by duerrp in "Show HN: Pyexperiment"

duerrp — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 02:39:43 +0000

Ok, I gave the motivating example another shot... not sure if it helps, but please let me know if you have any suggestions.